{"id":22913,"date":"2010-08-26T19:55:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T03:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22913"},"modified":"2010-08-26T20:00:33","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T04:00:33","slug":"if-you-cant-believe-in-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22913","title":{"rendered":"If You Can&#8217;t Believe In God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m listening to Dennis Prager&#8217;s 1996 lecture on Exodus 20.<\/p>\n<p>Says Dennis to his assistant Laurie: &#8220;If I don&#8217;t [do a good job repeating your point], feel free to resign. Did I tell you that she sent me to New York for no reason? I don&#8217;t even want to tell you because it would hurt her feelings that she got the date wrong and I went to New York for no speech. Do you know what it is like to walk on 33rd St. for no reason. It&#8217;s a phenomenon very few of you will experience in your life, being 3,000 miles from home for no reason. She&#8217;s the best though. She really is. You just have to live with that stuff. Everyone of us a quota of flat tires and you have to meet it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dennis says the Torah is more interested in crushing false gods than in getting people to believe in God.<\/p>\n<p>If you have trouble believing in God, I have another way for you to go about it &#8212; deny all other gods. From the Torah&#8217;s perspective, you will be affirming God. It is not possible to have no gods.<\/p>\n<p>Denial of false gods is all that the Torah demands of non-Jews (in this regard).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m listening to Dennis Prager&#8217;s 1996 lecture on Exodus 20. Says Dennis to his assistant Laurie: &#8220;If I don&#8217;t [do a good job repeating your point], feel free to resign. Did I tell you that she sent me to New &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22913\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,590],"tags":[29761,23312,23520,23519,4327],"class_list":["post-22913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","category-torah","tag-dennis-prager","tag-exodus","tag-false-gods","tag-flat-tires","tag-good-job"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22917,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22913\/revisions\/22917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}